Stampin' Up! UK #1 Demonstrator Sam Hammond

All Stars Blog Hop – A Good Man and the Coca Cola river

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Stampin’ Up! #1 Demonstrator Pootles – All Stars Blog Hop – A Good Man and the Coca Cola river

It’s time for another All Stars Blog Hop and this month we are on the midnight hour for the UK, so I guess that some of you will be waking up to an extra blog post!!

My parents are wonderful people. I grew up growing fruit and veg in our garden, collecting fresh eggs from our chickens, making home-made play doh with my Mum, reading books with my Dad.
Mum tells me that Dad would come home off duty (he was a Policeman) and would take me for walks in my pram for hours, just to give Mum a chance to get ahead with cooking, cleaning, looking after my older brothers.
I have great memories of holidays in our caravan in the late 70s and early 80s – going to Bible Week in the Yorkshire Dales first, before then going on somewhere else for week.
The most vivid is where we had gone on to Appletreewick in North Yorkshire for a week and taken a walk after some rainful and came across a fast moving river. As a little one, I would often find myself sitting on Daddy’s shoulders and watching the world that way.
On this particular holiday, Mum snapped a photo of me, right up on Dad’s shoulders staring it this river that was so fast moving that it looked like churning, bubbly Coca Cola! It was essentially brown with churning rushing water, but ‘The Coca Cola River’ just sounds so much better.
I’m sure Dad carried me for hours, so using A Good Man with him and me represented sums us up. Dad is still the most important male influence in my life and having them living so close to me again is wonderful. He’s as patient and tolerant with my sons as he was with me – putting a brave, but interested face on when little Oliver wants to tell him aaaaallll about his latest computer game, or when Jacob wants to get involved in every tiny piece of detail with Dad’s railway hobby.
I really did grow up loved. I still am.
S x

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  2. What a beautiful story, for some reason it brought tears to my eyes. I too remember my Papa carrying me on his shoulder and the world looked so big. Anyway lovely card Sam! Have a great day, happy stampin

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  4. I hope your Dad gets a chance to read the story behind this lovely card. Childhood is so fleeting and as a parent it is good to know what our children recall as happy times.

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